Systems Theory and Family Therapy - A Primer (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice. This meta-perspective focuses on viewing problems in context. The difference between first-order and second-order cybernetics is explicated. Readers then are invited to see themselves as parts of the systems with which they are working consistent with a second-order cybernetics perspective. Along the way a difference between modernism and post-modernism as well as constructionism and social constructionism also are described. In addition, theories of individual and family development are presented with implications for their use in family therapy. The book concludes with more than 100 examples of how the meta-perspective of systems theory can be used in work with families.

General

Imprint:	Hamilton Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Raphael J Becvar • Dorothy Stroh Becvar
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	118
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7618-6981-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Promotions
LSN:	0-7618-6981-6
Barcode:	9780761869818

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